On Jan 27 13:53, Ken Brown via Cygwin-patches wrote:
> Allow fchmodat with the AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag to succeed on
> non-symlinks. Previously it always failed, as it does on Linux. But
> POSIX permits it to succeed on non-symlinks even if it fails on
> symlinks.
>
> The reason for following
Allow fchmodat with the AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag to succeed on
non-symlinks. Previously it always failed, as it does on Linux. But
POSIX permits it to succeed on non-symlinks even if it fails on
symlinks.
The reason for following POSIX rather than Linux is to make gnulib
report that fchmodat
